Asiwinarong

Ethos, Image, and Social Power among the Usen Barok of New Ireland

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2869733
AutoresJ Barker (0000-0002-2896-7358, University of British Columbia, autor correspondente), Roy Wagner (0000-0001-8764-819X)
Ano1988
Volume61
Fascículo1
Páginas201
Data de publicação1988-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPacific Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2758127
OpenAlexW2039954616
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas45

Professor Wagner's study of Barok social and ritual life pays special attention to the men's-house feasting cycle. The kaba. or culminating death feast of that cycle, is invoked by the word asiwinarong, which symbolizes the leadership succession on which Barok claims to ethical integrity and precedence restOriginally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

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